(ThyBlackMan.com) The Iowa Caucuses are over and now it’s on to New Hampshire. But exactly who’s focused on New Hampshire and who has turned their attentions elsewhere is not completely clear. At 2:30 this morning I was intently watching MSNBC for the announcement of the final Caucus results. I needed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) A Ron Paul/Dennis Kucinich presidential ticket would be hot. As a progressive, that would absolutely stoke my fires. I bet that a Ron Paul/Kucinich ticket would also capture the interest of Republicans who hearken back to the party’s non-interventionist, fiscally conservative roots. Yesterday, Felicia Sonmez, of The Washington Post, ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Happy New Year. The advent of the new year brings about many things: vows to change your way of life, resolutions to lose weight, quit smoking, volunteer and read more. The New Year for some means new starts or achieving old goals. Around these blog parts a new year ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul just can’t seem to help himself when it comes to his fetish on a law which has been on the books for nearly five decades and which has long since been rendered a moot point by even avowed white supremacists. That’s the 1964 Civil ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Six months ago, I returned home to discover a family had moved into my backyard storage shed. Displaying an incredible sense of entitlement and off the chain arrogance, the family refused to leave, arguing they were simply seeking a better life. Adding insult to injury, their TV, computers and ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) In his latest attempt to deflect criticism for racially insensitive newsletters written in the first person and signed with his name in the 1980s and ’90s, Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul now says, “only eight to ten sentences were offensive.” While Paul wants the public to know that he ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Iowa caucus is a sideshow — a good one, but a sideshow nonetheless. The one man who knows that is President Obama. He, and his reelection team, publicly slam the only challenger that can make the 2012 presidential race competitive, if not an actual horse race. That’s Mitt ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul accepted “some responsibility” Thursday for the racist newsletters that ran under his name in the 1980s and 90s. In an appearance on WHO Radio’s Jan Mickelson Radio Show in Des Moines, the Texas congressman Ron Paul downplayed the importance of the newsletters and claimed ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) The Federal Emergency Management Agency mailed out over 83,000 debt notices this year to victims of Hurricane Katrina and other storms that occurred in 2005 during the administration of George W. Bush. The average FEMA debt from this period is about $4,622 per recipient, which many say is due ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Let’s do a mash up of completely divergent public figures who in totally different stratospheres fascinate and enthrall, and sometimes antagonize, Evelyn Lozada and Ron Paul. In the lexicon of the glamorous, yet troubled, Lozada of the Real Basketball Wives, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, the wiry-framed libertarian, went from ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) “Mitt Romney…is awesome.” You could hear the screams from around the room. In the conservative and evangelical circles in which I travel, that pronouncement has the same effect as professing a hidden fantasy to enter into same-sex marriage with Harry Reid. Bonkers, stark-raving bonkers! And yet, after spending the ...
(ThyBlackMan.com) Dr. Ron Paul is a true patriot, and his support of a different vision of the constitution needs to be debated anew, in the light of the positive and negative changes that have come with that defining document’s continuing evolution. States’ Rights versus a strong Federal National Government is ...